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To think that posting photos of massive piles of eggs is in bad taste?

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Fudgewhizz · 12/04/2020 11:08

I really can't stand this - people posting their kids' enormous piles of Easter eggs on Facebook (or whatever). Of course I scroll on by and don't comment but I just think it's a bit boasty- honestly who cares how many eggs your kids have got? I don't have an issue with seeing kids enjoying them or whatever but so many people seem to post photos of a massive pile the night before and it just smacks of 'oh look how lucky / privileged my kids are to have ALL THIS CHOCOLATE, aren't we great'. (And yes, I do think the same about the positing of piles of Christmas presents too)

Frankly I don't care how many eggs people have got, and neither does my DD (yet!), but I feel bad for people who feel like they're somehow letting their kids down if they don't have a huge pile that Facebook seems to be filled with.

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CaptSkippy · 12/04/2020 15:56

It's the kids who pay the price for parents acting like that.

Thankfully, I don't have kids so I don't have to see the fall-put of the shitty entitled behavior. But I still hurt for my parents who had to watch us go through it.

In my experience, people who use the term "hater" are usually, entitled, pieces of shit.

DameHannahRelf · 12/04/2020 15:58

The ones realising most of the "haters" aren't jealous at all, and that actually many of them will make more in a week, than they've saved up all year to brag about (especially at christmas), and that they're coming across as more needy for validation than anything?

KenDodd · 12/04/2020 15:59

Honestly I think it makes them look like bad parents for allowing their children to have so much shite to eat.

If my children get to many Easter eggs, I'd feel ashamed, I wouldn't post it on FB.

Trapordo · 12/04/2020 16:03

Type in pollyannacozens1 into Instagram and go and see her ridiculously over the top layout. THEN you'll know what showing off is. It makes 1000 Easter eggs look cheap and half hearted Grin

RishiSunakFanClub · 12/04/2020 16:04

Would it better to post a pile of photos of a massive egg?

I only have one egg but it's humungous and I don't have a camera so have taken no photographs - is that ok?

MamaBearLockdown · 12/04/2020 16:09

In my experience, people who use the term "hater" are usually, entitled, pieces of shit.

proves my point, you sound lovely. Flowers

WhatWouldYouDoWhatWouldJesusDo · 12/04/2020 16:12

My kids have always had a max of about 3 each, 1 off us, one off their grandad and one off their auntie. Just the medium / small sized ones. I got them an extra one this year (( kinder egg )) because things have been so shit.

I think that's more than enough and don't really care what anyone else does.

WombOfOnesOwn · 12/04/2020 16:16

Wow! I'm an American and just found out that your Easter eggs are very different from ours. In the US we usually have hollow, reusable plastic ones that can be "hunted" indoors or out, and you put a little piece of candy inside, or a tiny party favor type toy, the kind you get for pennies apiece in a pack of 12.

I thought you all sounded a bit stingy not wanting children to have more than one or two eggs, until I looked up what an easter egg is in the UK! Our stores have a few things like that, but have never bought one for the children. They look very, very rich! Here, the "big chocolate" most kids get is a chocolate bunny, usually hollow and (to be totally honest) kind of crap chocolate. Even the formerly "good" brands don't taste like chocolate anymore.

Pinkblueberry · 12/04/2020 16:24

In the US we usually have hollow, reusable plastic ones that can be "hunted" indoors or out, and you put a little piece of candy inside,

This sounds great! I don’t think we really get Easter right here in the UK. I think a lot of kids don’t even do the egg hunt or chocolate hunt bit, they just wake up to find 5+ (Or 10+ according to what some people here have seen on FB) massive chocolate eggs plonked on the sofa.

MamaBearLockdown · 12/04/2020 16:28

you can find a bit of everything here, places like hobbycraft or poundshop have loads of hollow eggs to fill in. It's not all about the big branded boxed egg, even in supermarkets, even if the aisles are full of them.

I wonder if most of the people who only give 1 egg to their child actually do an easter hunt. Bit sad if they don't.

I thought many kids were putting Easter hunt drawings in their windows so others could do another typer of "hunt" when going on a walk this weekend, so it's not that unusual.

mochojoes · 12/04/2020 16:57

We made Easter cards, chick decorations, easter bonnets, decorated the house, did egg & spoon races & a fantastic egg hunt. We use hollow eggs for the garden hunt & put a little chocolate inside each one. I don't post anything on facebook though as I don't need validation from others. Most of my family live abroad but there is the thing called whatsapp which we communicate on.

mochojoes · 12/04/2020 17:03

Bragbook for the lower IQ'
😂
That is brilliant

MamaBearLockdown · 12/04/2020 17:04

I don't post anything on facebook though as I don't need validation from others. Most of my family live abroad but there is the thing called whatsapp which we communicate on.

so you are superior because you post things on whatsapp whilst others choose Facebook? Brilliant.

phoenixrosehere · 12/04/2020 17:04

Wow! I'm an American and just found out that your Easter eggs are very different from ours. In the US we usually have hollow, reusable plastic ones that can be "hunted" indoors or out, and you put a little piece of candy inside, or a tiny party favor type toy, the kind you get for pennies apiece in a pack of 12.•

Yes, brings back memories. My aunts would do Easter egg hunts for my cousins and I and we’d be running around their yard looking for eggs and seeing who got the most and then eat some of it together.y grandparents’ church did them as well for the children. It was one of the main reasons I went to church and to wear a pretty dress. 😊

mochojoes · 12/04/2020 17:07

Where did I say I post the equivalent on Whatsapp?

I just said I can communicate with family on that platform as so many use that excuse as opposed to bragging. Just own it!

MamaBearLockdown · 12/04/2020 17:12

mochojoes
I use Facebook as a platform because I like it. The class groups of my kids are on Whatsapp... People can brag on anything if bragging is their thing. If you feel you have some moral superiority, go for it. Wink

mochojoes · 12/04/2020 17:17

@MamaBearLockdown Why does it make me morally superior? Posting photos of your dc surrounded by lots of eggs, or presents, or whatever just looks braggy. If you want to brag then you don't need permission but like I said own it. Also if you're secure enough you shouldn't worry what others think of you or your bragging 😜

melj1213 · 12/04/2020 17:20

My ex posted a picture of all the eggs DD received because normally she would get one from each of us and one from each set of grandparents. Split over two households she would receive 2 eggs on Easter Sunday and the other two the following week. This year she received 10 eggs all at once, because she is staying with my ex (I'm a key worker and he wfh so shes staying full time with him atm) and everyone had left an egg for her. He posted a picture to thank everyone for their eggs and to curse us all for him now having to find places to put them so DD could do an egg hunt this morning.

On my side of the family because I have a lot of siblings, nieces and nephews we usually go to Easter mass and then go back to my parents for Easter Sunday dinner, where there would also be an Easter egg hunt - with a mix of presents (bunny ears/bubbles/Easter crafts etc) and small chocolate eggs/Easter chocolate - set up by my parents for all the kids. The kids arent fussed about the eggs as most have already had at least one for breakfast it's mostly the fun of running round together.

This year they obviously cannot see each other and to compensate for losing out on the usual family gathering, the Easter hunt, spending time with their cousins etc most family members have sent the kids an Easter egg so everyone has more than usual.

MamaBearLockdown · 12/04/2020 17:21

read my posts, I am laughing at people who judge and feel superior.
I like seeing my friends and family posts, and I post what I feel like it.
I don't accuse people to brag the minute they dare putting a photo. Unlike some of you on here...

Petiolaris · 12/04/2020 17:23

My toddler has one egg because our Tesco delivery was limited to 80 items and we could only afford to sacrifice one item to chocolate. Everyone else is expected to be mature enough to understand that under the circumstances we can’t get hold of eggs this year. It’s particularly bad taste to post photos of piles of eggs knowing that families who are shielding couldn’t go out to buy any.

TigerQueenie · 12/04/2020 17:29

The only part I find tacky and sad are the photos of "Easter bunny has been" with a pile of eggs or whatever, rather than the children receiving them.

mochojoes · 12/04/2020 17:30

I don't accuse people to brag the minute they dare putting a photo.
Posters aren't accusing anyone who posts a photo of bragging though, it depend on the photo.

@MamaBearLockdown your earlier post said Don't look if it bothers you, you could apply the same logic to this thread...

NotEverythingIsBlackandwhite · 12/04/2020 17:30

I couldn't care less if idiots post pictures of heaps of eggs for their kids. Why do people even feel the need to post such stuff? I feel sorry for their kids, if anything.

MamaBearLockdown · 12/04/2020 17:31

Petiolaris
no need to be a martyr, I bought all my Easter stuff whilst the kids were still at school, before the panic buy and the lockdown!

MamaBearLockdown · 12/04/2020 17:33

mochojoes
You are confusing being bothered and having a different opinion. Does it bother you so much that I don't agree with you?
I like to see photos of friends and families, it's odd that it put others in such a bad mood.

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